Business is Booming

College of Business Administration alumni may be especially interested to find out what a number of their classmates have been up to lately by checking the extensive list of Class Notes responders from the college. They are a busy bunch!

’76 Gavin Cushman (CBA) is in Iraq for the U.S. Department of State as senior business development and investment advisor.

’79 Barb Dan (CBA) is vice-president, marketing for Ready Pac Foods in Irwindale, CA. Son Alex—his father is John Dan (’79)—is a freshman majoring in economics at UT Knoxville.

’80 Jeff Shaw (CBA) and his family moved from California to Bar Harbor, ME, to purchase the Primrose Inn Bed and Breakfast, leaving the world of accounting after 26 years.

’81 Jenny Banner (CBA), Department of Finance Advisory Council member and CEO of the Schaad Companies, established the John M. Wachowicz Jr. Finance Excellence Endowment to support the activities of the Financial Management Association and the Volunteers on Wall Street program.

’82 R. Wesley “Wes” Dean, M.D., (CBA) has been appointed 2010 president-elect of the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians.

’82 Randy Kelley (CBA) is head of sales for IBM Insurance Outsourcing Solutions in Greenville, SC.

’86 Terry McWilliams (CBA) is chairman of INVESTTennessee Conference LLC, formed to bring together senior management of select Tennessee public companies.

’87 Art and Cathy Hall (CBA) met in the MBA program and married in 1989. Their son Drew is a freshman in engineering at UT Knoxville.

’02 Stephen Knazik, DO, FACEP, FAAP, (CBA) received the Advanced Pediatric Life Support Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for his work in furthering the goal of early recognition and stabilization of life-threatened children.